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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. — Aneurin Bevan · 1953
A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror. — Anthony Trollope · 1883
Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government. — Emma Goldman · 1910
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I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all. — John Adams · 1776
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. — Robert Frost · 1936
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. — Walter Sobchak · 1998